From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 08:29:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDFA16A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB9543D67 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyh@hhbb.co.uk) Received: from [10.0.0.25] (hedgie1.gotadsl.co.uk [82.133.95.107]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E442538A7 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:28:51 +0100 (BST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1CCCABB6-87DF-11D8-ADA9-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Andy Holyer Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:28:53 +0100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: I've broken /boot/device.hints X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:29:15 -0000 I was trying to disable ACPI by editing device.hints, and left some garbage at the start of the file. Now I find the kernel won't boot - you get to the little Daemon flash page, and then kernel load goes on and after the first line of boot, the star fails to spin. I've got a spare copy of the root partition on /dev/ac1s1a but I can't seem to boot from there. This box is very unhappy with ACPI. If I boot from floppies the emergency shell doesn't seem to include a copy of mount, so I can't rectify the fault. Is there an easy survival route? Thanks in advance for any advice. --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241